Yokohama English Garden

The Yokohama English Garden packs more than two thousand rose varieties into a professionally designed landscape a few minutes from Yokohama Station, and rose lovers rightly treat it as a pilgrimage site. But the garden is planted for the whole year, so whichever month you visit, something is performing.

A garden built around roses

The layout runs through themed sections where roses climb arches, tumble over walls and pair with perennials in the naturalistic English style, reaching a spectacular peak in the spring flush and again more softly in autumn. The rose tunnel in full bloom is one of the Kanto region’s great flower photographs. Outside rose season, hydrangeas, spring blossoms, autumn foliage and thoughtful underplanting keep the beds alive, and winter illuminations give the garden an entirely different character after dark.

Visiting well

Serious photographers arrive at opening time in peak bloom weeks, when crowds build quickly. The garden is compact, an hour or two at most, so it slips easily into a Yokohama day alongside the harbourfront. A cafe and well stocked garden shop round it out, and green thumbed visitors should allow browsing time.

Getting there

The garden adjoins a housing exhibition site west of Yokohama Station; a free shuttle bus runs from near the station’s west side, or it is a short ride to Hiranumabashi Station on the Sotetsu line followed by a ten minute walk. Yokohama Station itself is reachable from Tokyo in around thirty minutes by JR.

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